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  • Communication
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30 December 2022

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a localized state in a continuous spectrum of radiating waves. In this study, the coupled-mode theory is introduced to more precisely interpret a symmetry-protected BIC and the quasi-BIC in a facile trimeric me...

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  • Open Access
1,420 Views
17 Pages

A Transition State Theory-Based Continuum Plasticity Model Accounting for the Local Stress Fluctuation

  • Yongjia Zheng,
  • Hongwei Wang,
  • Xiangyu Zhou,
  • Ding Tang,
  • Huamiao Wang,
  • Guoliang Wang,
  • Peidong Wu,
  • Yinghong Peng and
  • Yaodong Jiang

27 October 2024

Based on the transition state theory, a continuum plasticity theory is developed for metallic materials. Moreover, the nature of local stress fluctuation within a material point is considered by incorporating the probability distribution of the stres...

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10 Citations
3,331 Views
12 Pages

Plasmonic sensors have attracted intensive attention due to their high sensitivity. However, due to intrinsic metallic loss, plasmonic sensors usually have a large full width at half maximum (FWHM) that limits the wavelength resolution. In this paper...

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82 Citations
6,256 Views
13 Pages

Highly Efficient Light Absorption of Monolayer Graphene by Quasi-Bound State in the Continuum

  • Tian Sang,
  • Sina Abedini Dereshgi,
  • Wisnu Hadibrata,
  • Ibrahim Tanriover and
  • Koray Aydin

14 February 2021

Graphene is an ideal ultrathin material for various optoelectronic devices, but poor light–graphene interaction limits its further applications particularly in the visible (Vis) to near-infrared (NIR) region. Despite tremendous efforts to improve lig...

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21 January 2026

The giant atom paradigm, where a single quantum emitter couples to a continuum at multiple discrete points, has enabled unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, including decoherence-free subspaces and chiral emission. However, realizing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,248 Views
21 Pages

Continuum Electronic States: The Tiresia Code

  • Piero Decleva,
  • Mauro Stener and
  • Daniele Toffoli

21 March 2022

A multicenter (LCAO) B-spline basis is described in detail, and its capabilities concerning affording convergent solutions for electronic continuum states and wavepacket propagation are presented. It forms the core of the Tiresia code, which implemen...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,943 Views
14 Pages

A Bifunctional Silicon Dielectric Metasurface Based on Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum

  • Jianan Wang,
  • Weici Liu,
  • Zhongchao Wei,
  • Hongyun Meng,
  • Hongzhan Liu,
  • Jianping Guo,
  • Manxing Yang,
  • Yongkang Song,
  • Liujing Xiang and
  • Faqiang Wang
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11 September 2021

Quasi-bound states in the continuum provide an effective and observable way to improve metasurface performance, usually with an ultra-high-quality factor. Dielectric metasurfaces dependent on Mie resonances have the characteristic of significantly lo...

  • Review
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23 Citations
7,773 Views
20 Pages

Photonic Bound States in the Continuum in Nanostructures

  • Hongkun Zhong,
  • Tiantian He,
  • Yuan Meng and
  • Qirong Xiao

10 November 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have garnered considerable attention recently for their unique capacity to confine electromagnetic waves within an open or non-Hermitian system. Utilizing a variety of light confinement mechanisms, nanostructures c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,181 Views
18 Pages

Label-Free Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Biosensors

  • Man Luo,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Xuyang Zhao,
  • Yuxiang Li,
  • Zhihe Guo,
  • Xi Yang,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • You Wang and
  • Xiang Wu

2 December 2022

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices with enhanced light-matter interaction ability are very sensitive...

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1,322 Views
13 Pages

Strong Coupling Based on Quasibound States in the Continuum of Nanograting Metasurfaces in Near-Infrared Region

  • Yulun Zhao,
  • Junqiang Li,
  • Yuchang Liu,
  • Yadong Yue,
  • Yongchuan Dang,
  • Yilin Wang,
  • Kun Liang and
  • Li Yu

Quasibound states in the continuum (qBICs) have aroused much attention as a feasible stage to investigate optical strong coupling due to their extremely high-quality factors (Q-factors) and extraordinary electromagnetic field enhancement. However, cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,942 Views
13 Pages

6 March 2023

The appearance of all-dielectric micro–nano photonic devices constructed from high refractive index dielectric materials offers a low-loss platform for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves. The manipulation of electromagnetic waves by all-...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,053 Views
10 Pages

This paper describes a compact refractometer in visible with optical bounds states in the continuum (BICs) using silicon nitride (Si3N4) based sub-wavelength medium contrast gratings (MCGs). The proposed device is highly sensitive to different polari...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,075 Views
8 Pages

20 November 2022

There is a recent surge of interest to the bound states in the continuum (BICs) due to their ability to provide high-quality resonances in open photonic systems. They are usually observed in perturbed systems possessing Fano resonances in their spect...

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106 Citations
7,937 Views
11 Pages

Optical Biosensors Based on Photonic Crystals Supporting Bound States in the Continuum

  • Silvia Romano,
  • Annalisa Lamberti,
  • Mariorosario Masullo,
  • Erika Penzo,
  • Stefano Cabrini,
  • Ivo Rendina and
  • Vito Mocella

30 March 2018

A novel optical label-free bio-sensing platform based on a new class of resonances supported in a photonic crystal metasurface is reported herein. Molecular binding is detected as a shift in the resonant wavelength of the bound states in the continuu...

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24 Citations
5,282 Views
12 Pages

13 April 2021

Resonant optical modes arising in all-dielectric metasurfaces have attracted much attention in recent years, especially when so-called bound states in the continuum (BICs) with diverging lifetimes are supported. With the aim of studying theoretically...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,271 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2022

Bound state in the continuum (BIC) as a novel non-radiating state of light in the continuum of propagating modes has received great attention in photonics. Recently, chiral BICs have been introduced in the terahertz regime. However, strong chiroptica...

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53 Citations
6,674 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2020

In this paper, a tunable terahertz dielectric metasurfaces consisting of split gap bars in the unit cell is proposed and theoretically demonstrated, where the sharp high-quality Fano resonance can be achieved through excitation of quasi-bound states...

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Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in PDMS-Supported Silicon Metasurfaces

  • Sy Khiem Nguyen,
  • Ba Thong Trinh,
  • Dayeon Kim,
  • Netrapal Singh,
  • Young Kyu Hwang,
  • Vu Dinh Lam and
  • Ilsun Yoon

26 February 2026

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) in all-dielectric metasurfaces support high-Q resonances that are highly sensitive to structural symmetry and radiative coupling. Most previous studies have focused on static configurations on rigid su...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,949 Views
7 Pages

Asymmetric Orthogonal Metasurfaces Governed by Toroidal Dipole Bound States in the Continuum

  • Jun Ji,
  • Xiaolong Lv,
  • Chuanfei Li,
  • Xiaoyuan Yang and
  • Yunsheng Guo

26 October 2023

An all-dielectric metasurface composed of orthogonal-slit silicon disks is proposed in this study. By modifying the unit structure of the metasurface with the bound states in the continuum (BICs), a sharp Fano resonance can be generated. The resonanc...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
407 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2025

High-sensitivity microwave sensing plays a vital role in material characterization and nondestructive testing, with its performance being largely determined by the quality factor (Q factor) of the sensing structure. In this work, a high-Q microwave m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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10 Pages

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), characterized by high-Q modes, have demonstrated exceptional capabilities for enhancing light-matter interactions and, when combined with gain media, can enable compact lasers with low threshold power. However, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,365 Views
11 Pages

Ultrahigh Q-Guided Resonance Sensor Empowered by Near Merging Bound States in the Continuum

  • Zhiran Liu,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Zhihe Guo,
  • Xuyang Zhao,
  • Man Luo,
  • Yuxiang Li and
  • Xiang Wu

11 November 2022

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted a lot of interest in the field of nanophotonics, and provide an important physical mechanism to realize high quality (Q) factor resonance. However, in practice, manufacturing error will greatly affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,166 Views
10 Pages

High-Q Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in Terahertz All-Silicon Metasurfaces

  • Ruiqing Jiao,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Fangzhou Shu,
  • Guiming Pan,
  • Xufeng Jing and
  • Zhi Hong

23 September 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BIC)-based all-silicon metasurfaces have attracted widespread attention in recent years because of their high quality (Q) factors in terahertz (THz) frequencies. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an all-si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,343 Views
15 Pages

Asymmetric Cross Metasurfaces with Multiple Resonances Governed by Bound States in the Continuum

  • Hongjie Fan,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yuhang Sun,
  • Xueyu Wang,
  • Tiesheng Wu and
  • Yumin Liu

10 March 2023

The bound state in the continuum (BIC) has paved a new way to achieve excellent localization of the resonant mode coexisting with a continuous spectrum in the metasurface. Here, we propose an all-dielectric metasurface consisting of periodic pairs of...

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  • Open Access
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23 Pages

1 December 2025

We present an investigation into the band structure of acoustic waves in surface phononic crystals (SPnC), which comprise a square lattice of shallow cylinders on a mechanically isotropic semi-infinite substrate, utilizing the finite element method (...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,105 Views
14 Pages

25 May 2023

The enhancement of the Goos–Hänchen (GH) shift has become a research hotspot due to its promoted application of the GH effect in various fields. However, currently, the maximum GH shift is located at the reflectance dip, making it difficul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,953 Views
12 Pages

27 January 2023

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BIC) in all-dielectric metasurfaces provide a crucial platform for sensing due to its ability to enhance strong matter interactions between light-waves and analytes. In this study, a novel high-sensitivity a...

  • Article
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8 Citations
3,339 Views
10 Pages

30 June 2022

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) supported in all-dielectric metasurfaces (MTS) are known for their confinement in real space and the notably high values of the quality factor Q. Recently, the properties of quasi-BICs have been employ...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,868 Views
11 Pages

16 March 2025

Recently, the merging of accidental bound states in the continuum (BICs) has attracted significant attention due to the enhanced light–matter interactions. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the merging of accidental BICs in perturbed all-silic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,992 Views
11 Pages

Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulation Device without an Overlay Layer Based on Bound States in the Continuum

  • Guangyuan Chen,
  • Ning Xue,
  • Zhimei Qi,
  • Weichao Ma,
  • Wangzhe Li,
  • Zhenhu Jin and
  • Jiamin Chen

12 April 2024

Electro-optic modulation devices are essential components in the field of integrated optical chips. High-speed, low-loss electro-optic modulation devices represent a key focus for future developments in integrated optical chip technology, and they ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,580 Views
10 Pages

9 September 2021

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention due to their infinite Q factor. However, the realization of the analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) by near-field coupling with a dark BIC in metasurfaces remai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,789 Views
12 Pages

20 August 2024

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), which are characterized by their high-quality factor, have become a focal point in modern optical research. This study investigates BICs within a periodic array of dielectric resonators, specifically composed of...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,664 Views
9 Pages

10 November 2022

In this paper, we combine the dielectric metasurface with monolayer graphene to realize a high quality(Q)-factor quasi-BIC-based optical modulator, and the corresponding modulation performances are investigated by using the finite-difference time-dom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,855 Views
17 Pages

A Biosensor Based on Bound States in the Continuum and Fano Resonances in a Solid–Liquid–Solid Triple Layer

  • Ilyasse Quotane,
  • Madiha Amrani,
  • Cecile Ghouila-Houri,
  • El Houssaine El Boudouti,
  • Leonid Krutyansky,
  • Bogdan Piwakowski,
  • Philippe Pernod,
  • Abdelkrim Talbi and
  • Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

16 May 2022

We propose a simple solid–liquid–solid triple layer biosensor platform based on bound states in the continuum (BICs) and Fano resonances to detect the acoustic properties of liquids and apply the method to a mixture of water and albumin w...

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141 Citations
12,276 Views
12 Pages

11 August 2017

High sensitivity (S) and high quality factor (Q) are desirable to achieve low detection limit in label-free optical sensors. In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate that single-layer and coupled bi-layer photonic crystal slabs (PCS) possess simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,946 Views
15 Pages

Bound States in the Continuum and Induced Resonances in a Simple Plasmonic Waveguide with Sensing Application

  • Yamina Rezzouk,
  • Soufyane Khattou,
  • Madiha Amrani,
  • Adnane Noual,
  • El Houssaine El Boudouti,
  • Abdelkrim Talbi and
  • Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

20 November 2023

A Friedrich–Wintgen bound state in the continuum (FW-BIC) is of particular interest in the field of wave physics phenomena. It is induced via the destructive interference of two modes that belong to the same cavity. In this work, we analyticall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,134 Views
14 Pages

30 July 2025

The unique molecular fingerprint spectral characteristics in the terahertz (THz) band provide distinct advantages for non-destructive and rapid biomolecular detection. However, conventional THz metasurface biosensors still face significant challenges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,883 Views
12 Pages

Broadband and Ultra-Low Threshold Optical Bistability in Guided-Mode Resonance Grating Nanostructures of Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum

  • Xin Li,
  • Zhongshuai Zhang,
  • Yanyan Huo,
  • Lina Zhao,
  • Qingyang Yue,
  • Shouzhen Jiang,
  • Huawei Liang,
  • Yuanmei Gao and
  • Tingyin Ning

26 October 2021

We model optical bistability in all-dielectric guide-mode resonance grating (GMR) nanostructures working at quasi-bound states in the continuum (BICs). The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible material silicon nitride (SiN) is us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,454 Views
12 Pages

High-Q Resonances Enabled by Bound States in the Continuum for a Dual-Parameter Optical Sensing

  • Hongshun Liu,
  • Yuntao Pan,
  • Hongjian Lu,
  • Zongyu Chen,
  • Xuguang Huang and
  • Changyuan Yu

Optical sensing technologies, particularly refractive index and temperature sensing, are pivotal in biomedical, environmental, and industrial applications. This study introduces a dual-parameter all-dielectric transmissive grating sensor leveraging s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
14 Pages

High-Sensitivity Optical Sensor Driven by the High-Q Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum of an Asymmetric Bow-Tie Metasurface

  • Zanhui Chen,
  • Jiandao Huang,
  • Qinghao Tan,
  • Gongli Xiao,
  • Tangyou Sun,
  • Fabi Zhang,
  • Ahmad Syahrin Idris,
  • Qiping Zou,
  • Haiou Li and
  • Guo-Wei Lu

16 January 2026

All-dielectric metasurfaces based on quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) have emerged as a powerful platform for nanophotonic sensing, as they support high-Q resonances and strong near-field enhancements. Herein, we propose and numerical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,227 Views
10 Pages

25 March 2024

Current optical tweezering techniques are actively employed in the manipulation of nanoparticles, e.g., biomedical cells. However, there is still huge room for improving the efficiency of manipulating multiple nanoparticles of the same composition bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,217 Views
9 Pages

Electromagnetically induced transparency based on bound states in the continuum (EIT-BIC) has emerged as a significant research focus in photonics due to its exceptionally high quality factor (Q-factor). This study investigates a periodic dielectric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,312 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2024

With the rapid development of optical communication and quantum information, the demand for efficient and broadband nonlinear frequency conversion has increased. At present, most single-frequency conversion processes in lithium niobate on insulator (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,576 Views
11 Pages

23 December 2024

The deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) has garnered significant attention for its ability to describe the properties of nuclei across the entire nuclear chart, from light to heavy nuclei, including both stable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,187 Views
29 Pages

4 March 2025

For the problem of large joint angular velocity and high input in the trajectory planning and control of robots, an explicit-time trajectory tracking for a state-constraint continuum free-floating space robot with smooth joint-path and low input is p...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,982 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) garnered significant research interest in the field of sensors due to their exceptionally high-quality factors. However, the wide-band continuum in BICs are noise to the bound states, and it is difficult to contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,198 Views
13 Pages

Modulation of the Multiple Bound States in the Continuum of the All-Dielectric Metasurface

  • Suxia Xie,
  • Jingcheng Yang,
  • Guang Tian,
  • Weiwei Shen and
  • Chongjun Bai

Based on the ideas of modulation of multiple BICs, ultrahigh Q-factor resonance has been realized by array of planar metasurfaces with H-shaped nanoholes, perforated on a Si3N4 photonic crystal slab surrounded by a silica medium. Multiple BICs of bot...

  • Review
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7 Citations
6,002 Views
35 Pages

Light Trapping above the Light Cone in One-Dimensional Arrays of Dielectric Spheres

  • Evgeny N. Bulgakov,
  • Almas F. Sadreev and
  • Dmitrii N. Maksimov

8 February 2017

We demonstrate bound states in the radiation continuum (BSC) in a linear periodic array of dielectric spheres in air above the light cone. We classify the BSCs by orbital angular momentum m = 0,±1,±2 according to the rotational symmetry of the array,...

  • Article
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16 Citations
3,733 Views
13 Pages

Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum of a Dielectric Metasurface for Optical Monitoring and Temperature Sensing

  • Xu Du,
  • Suxia Xie,
  • Haoxuan Nan,
  • Siyi Sun,
  • Weiwei Shen,
  • Jingcheng Yang and
  • Xin Guan

28 August 2023

Chiral BIC can reach ultrahigh quality factors (Q-factor) based on its asymmetry, with broken mirror symmetries and in-plane inversion. Only by in-plane structural perturbation can chiral quasi-BIC (q-BIC) appear, so it is much more realizable and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,742 Views
12 Pages

Tuning Q-Factor and Perfect Absorption Using Coupled Tamm States on Polarization-Preserving Metasurface

  • Natalya V. Rudakova,
  • Rashid G. Bikbaev,
  • Larisa E. Tyryshkina,
  • Stepan Ya. Vetrov and
  • Ivan V. Timofeev

18 December 2023

The circular polarization of light flips its handedness after a conventional metallic mirror reflection. Therefore, a polarization-preserving metasurface is a crucially important element in a series of chiral photonic structures. They include tunable...

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